Hannah Einbinder stars in Jane Schoenbrun’s Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, playing a queer filmmaker whose attempt to cast a celebrated horror “final girl”, played by Gillian Anderson, develops into a psychologically and sexually fraught relationship. The role continues Einbinder’s recent run of cross-generational, complicated female dynamics after five seasons of Hacks, and highlights Schoenbrun’s interest in queer identity, horror conventions and emotional instability.

Einbinder said she drew on films including Secretary, The Duke of Burgundy and David Cronenberg’s Crash, while Anderson said the project introduced her to the cultural significance of the final-girl trope after previously avoiding horror films. Camp Miasma is Schoenbrun’s third feature, following We’re All Going to the World’s Fair and I Saw the TV Glow; the director said the film grew from their experience of coming into their sexuality and body after transitioning.